INCUBATION AND BROODING 



to 98 per cent of all eggs set are fertile and from 85 to 90 per cent 

 of fertile eggs are hatched. This is about the average of the 

 season. ' 



A. 30. For several years I used the outdoor brooders and 

 found it did not pay to place over 50 or 75 chicks in one brooder 



A. 31. For the chicks I use chick food and beef scrap for 

 the first few weeks. Have tried several ways of feeding and 

 find the chick food the best feed I can get for raising chicks. I 

 also tise charcoal and green rye. Charcoal is kept before the 

 chicks at all times and beef scrap is put before them after the 

 fifth or sixth day. Green rye is fed every day. 



A. 32. I do not feed my chicks at all for the first 48 

 hours, then they are fed a light feed of chick food on a little 

 plank or pan. After they learn to eat I feed in a light litter at 

 first and then as the birds grow older I feed them in a deeper 

 litter so they will have to work more for it. I feed about five 

 times a day until they are several weeks old but not much at 

 a time. 



GEO. A. BARROWS, Groton, N. Y. 



S. C. WHITE LEGHORN SPECIALIST 



A. 29. I hatch all of my chicks with incubators. 



A. 30. Usually 75 chicks, but 50 chicks would be better. 



A. 31. I feed a little chick grit, chick food and bat-flake 

 and beef scrap, also charcoal. 



A. 32. I try to keep grit scattered in the litter for the 

 little chicks aH the time. I feed the chick food and oat-fiake 

 three times per day and keep a small dish of beef scraps before 

 the chicks all the time. 



GUS. L. MAINLINE, Lamar, Missouri 



BREEDER OF WHITE WYANDOTTES 



A. 30. Not over 50. 



A. 31. Corn bread made of corn meal, ground bone and 

 mixed with milk; this with good water, good grass, and good 

 care, makes good chicks. 



G. MONROE WOOD, Woodville, N. Y. 



WHITE LEGHORN SPECIALIST 



29. I use incubators — ^my chicks are all hatched arti- 



About 100 chicks; I presume less would be better. 

 We feed chick food, wheat and cracked com, also 



A. 

 ficially. 



A. 30. 



A. 31. 

 beef scraps. 



A. 32. About five times a day. We feed for the first six 

 or seven weeks prepared chick food, also beef scraps. We keep 

 the scraps before them all the time; after that we feed cracked 

 com and wheat, good milling wheat at that. 



CHARLES G. PAPE, Fort Wayne, Indiana 



,S. C. BLACK MINORCA SPECIALIST 



A. 29. Have used incubators to good advantage. This 

 year used hens entirely 

 A. 30. Fifty. 

 A. 31. First feed, yolks of eggs well peppered and bread. 



H. H. FIKE. LibertyviUe, 111. 



WHITE WYANDOTTE SPECIALIST 



A. 29. Hatch all by incubators. 



A. 30. Never more than 35 chicks. 



A. 31. Steel cut oats first ten days, then a good chick 

 food after four weeks. Wheat, eight weeks, mash once a day. 

 AU skim milk they wiU drink. 



A. 32. Three times a day. 



J. L. JEFFERSON, Des Plaines, III. 



WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS EXCLUSIVELY 



A. 29. Have used nothing but incubators for the past 

 four years. 



A. 30. Not over 40. 



A. 31. Steel cut oatmeal and bread soaked in milk until 

 about three weeks old, then use wheat instead of the steel cut 

 oats, after they are six weeks old use whole oats soaked in water; 

 corn when nearly full developed. 



A. 32. Feed dry feed in litter, and for the first three 

 weeks I feed five times a day. After that three times if on range 

 which they should be by all means. 



WHITE WYANDOTTE PEN 



Prepared chick food, plenty of grit and charcoal. 



A. 32. Spread the feed on galvanized iron with a small 

 amount of chaff or dry sand scattered or spread over the iron, 

 five times daily. 



D. F. PALMER & SON, YorkviUe, 111. 



BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS 



A. 29. We hatch about 50 per cent by incubator. 



A. 30. About 70 to 80 chicks. 



A. 31. Wheat, cracked corn and stale bread soaked in 



milk. 



A. 32. About five times per day when small. 



WM. H. ROBINSON, La Fayette, Ind. 



BREEDER OF BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS AND WHITE VlTYANttOTTES 



A. 29. I use the natural method only in hatching and 

 growing my chicks, and get at times ahnost 100 per cent. 

 A. 30. Do not use them. 



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